Watling Streetworks Winter Series

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 16 March 2025

Reflections don't make for exciting sailing! For the latest round of the Watling Streetworks Winter Series, there was little wind in the forecast and what was expected would be from the East. That side is protected by the ridge that separates East and West Baldwin with some, possibly, catabatic wind with the cooler air rolling down from Carraghan so it was patchy and mostly from Northerly direction down the West...

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 9 March 2025

Great view from the start line Nothing like a good forecast to bring out the crowd and in the bright sunshine of the Baldwin valley 16 crews competed for the final month of racing for the Watling Streetworks Dinghy Series. This included full turnouts from both Peel and Laxey! Unlike the previous Sunday, cancelled, there was wind and unusually it was blowing mostly down the valley with the usual light...

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 16 February 2025

Report by Andrew Dean The weather forecast unsurprisingly reduced the fleet form last week’s 16 to just 4, although your correspondent might have competed had he not lost an argument with a drill. With winds in excess of 20 knots in the Irish Sea, with a direction of just south of east, giving it a miss seemed sensible. A temperature of 3 degrees added to the unpleasantness. But this did not deter Jerry ...

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 12 January 2025

Dinghy racing for 2025 started on Sunday morning, following the previous week's issues snow, dinghy’s snowed in and crews snowed out! The Watling Streetworks January Series sailed on the West Baldwin reservoir, snow still on the surrounding hills and a forecast of building wind during the morning. Mostly light winds with the occasional gentle gust, enough to have most crews hiking (leaning out) h...

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 19 January 2025

A grey day at Injebreck Storm Eowyn warnings for the end of this week, but conditions could not have been more different for dinghy racing on West Baldwin reservoir last Sunday morning. The gentle south easterly wind blew mostly up the lake, the odd waft here and there, difficult to call then gusts and of course the usual deadly hollows. The fleet of thirteen started Race one and quickly sorted themselves...

Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 7 January 2024

The MS&CC’s final festive fling took place on 7^th January at Injebreck in brilliant sunshine and with a light mostly North-Easterly breeze, quite a contrast to last year’s wet and windy (but warmer) weather.

8 boats turned out on a forecast of around 5 knots of breeze from the East expecting to find it flat calm but as always Injebreck was not as expected with a light Northerly gently ruffling the waters and the sun highlighting the colours on the hills above us. So we started to rig, but there were issues here as any drops of water were now frozen and ropes were solid as gas pipes and reluctant to run through blocks and pulleys. A short delay due to the patrol boat driver Peter Hoosen-Owen’s pickup truck’s frozen locks allowed a bit of a thaw and all ropes were running reasonably free by the start of the first race. Full report can be found here – Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 7 January 2024